Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...
...Hapag" the Germans gaily call that steamship line more sedately known as Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft...
Craig B. Hazelwood. One banker not perturbed by these changes was Craig B. Hazelwood of Chicago, retiring president of the A. B. A. Banker Hazelwood has many friends among bankers, is said to keep track of their careers as closely as changes in banking trends. Known as an orator and wise counselor, Mr. Hazelwood recently warned: "Let the banker who is afraid to face facts remember that his competitor is going to face them and that progress will go on, with him or over him. A mind that is not receptive to new viewpoints is apt to be closed...
Carefully Banker Hazelwood saw to it that the controversy over banking methods could not escape the convention, arranged speeches that represented all possible views from the old-fashioned single, branchless unit to national group banking. At the convention Mr. Hazelwood, although known to be an enthusiast for branch banking, declined to discuss its merits and demerits, spoke on his favorite topic of bank management...
Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope...